Home distilling / brewing

my grandfather, if you're into ouzo or wine

 

everything i know i learned from this http://www.hulu.com/watch/31399/the-simpsons-prohibition-in-springfield

 

With your luck, I see explosions, temporary blindness and oddly colored floor stains in your future... :lol:

 

Although not technically brewing you can make Umeshu quite easily using Ume (green unripe plums), rock sugar and 35% alcohol shochu, takes about 6 months to do properly but only 30 to 45 minutes to make.

Me and my girlfriend have made sake before (at her place as her father has a license to brew alcohol as home fermentation is illegal in Japan...) it was very simple and involves steaming rice (a rice cooker does), and adding a fungus called komekoji and brewers yeast. Takes a month to brew, once done you strain it and you get white unfiltered sake. You can use the rice mash to make sweet sake (just add water and sugar) then heat for a bit or use it to pickle veggies and fish.

The sake itself is wonderful and tastes a lot nice knowing you have made it yourself.


Are you thinking of setting up a microbrewery? Making Assembler beer? :thumbsup:

 

Barc0de, how about some tsipouro .. strong stuff eh?

 

Don't forget to have this song playing in the background once you get your still set up Assembler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBcFxF3F78Y

 

Ah Gin is a nice one to make, it's quite easy and you can make it in the kitchen using standard kitchen equipment. I used a saucepan, a plate, a bowl and a metal bowl... was effective and distilled the filtered mash.

There is cold compounding too which normally just involves adding various spices to some vodka or neutral grain spirit in a jar, shaking it everyday, using some muslin to seperate the bits from the liquid, then using coffee filters (or even a comsumer water filter unit) to get the liquid as clear as possible before mixing it with more grain spirit mixed with a fair amount of spring, distilled or filtered water.

I have made in my life... Umeshu, Sake, Gin, various fruit and herb Schnapps (which Umeshu is effectively one...), Absinthe (surprisingly quite easy) all these can be made in the kitchen without expensive equipment.

 

cool. so then you can make your very own vodka martini

 

One of my mates makes cider and ale. He's literally got gallons of the stuff in barrells and more bubbling away at the moment. I'm not sure if thre's a legal limit on the amount of homebrew you can have, but if there is I'm sure he's well over it. It's a sight to behold.

I don't like cider but he took a load to a big free-party in Wales during the summer and everyone was hammered off it. The beer isn't too bad though, it's actually quite nice and pretty potent.

 

Give Gordon's a run for their money K!

 

My parents used to do this back in the 70's and early 80's when it was popular first time around.

We had a room full of large bottles, vats, pipes and the like. Once, whilst on holiday a batch of beer turned into a projectile and laid waste to several other glass vats. There was beer and glass everywhere.

Only other experience is an ex-g/friend whose parents owned an authentic, genuine working vin yard in France. That was fan-freaking-tastic btw! I recommend it completely! So, whatever plans you have, I suggest you simply find a young woman (or man if that's your thing) who is set to inherit a distillery / brewery / vin yard and get married! You'll be pickled in no time.

 

Yeah i do homebrew, made all sorts of spirits lately, plenty of different rums, baileys, vodka, peach schanps (spelling?) etc etc.

You can get all sorts of electric distiliers on the internet, of course in alot of countrys its illegal without a brewing licence to use these for this particular purpose so are often described as water distilers etc.

Flavourings for the alcohol are readily available all over the place (at least they are over here in the UK) so all in all pretty simple to do.

Can make alcohol pretty much anything between 1% all the way up to 100% vol.

Also do red wine, white wine, wheat beers and ales etc, abit of everything really lol, so yeah you probably guessed it, local alcoholic here

 

FYI, home distilling of spirits without a commercial license is a federal crime here in El Norte.

Look out y'all, here come the revenuers! *chase scene with banjo music ensues*

 

Moonshine anyone ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6qaaLfU_hA (The Danish version of the song Moonshiner)

Parris: ASSEMbler is neither gay or bi . he is straight.

 

LOL ! 'twas a jest bud! In this day and age you have to be open minded and not pigeon hole folk or just assume. :noooo:

 

I know that one... my dad was making elderflower pop one time, the batch was under the stairs. We heard a loud bang and then silence for a few seconds... followed by a bunch more loud bangs. The first bottle had shaken up the rest and they'd all popped too; the entire place was drenched in sugary suds.

Might've been ginger beer, actually... can't remember now. There's usually something brewing in there. Got some elderflower wine at the moment, should be ready next autumn.

 

why, because he turned you down? :lol: